[rds-devel] [PATCH net v3] net/rds: fix recursive lock in rds_tcp_conn_slots_available
Fernando Fernandez Mancera
fmancera at suse.de
Thu Feb 19 07:57:38 UTC 2026
syzbot reported a recursive lock warning in rds_tcp_get_peer_sport() as
it calls inet6_getname() which acquires the socket lock that was already
held by __release_sock().
kworker/u8:6/2985 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88807a07aa20 (k-sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1709 [inline]
ffff88807a07aa20 (k-sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: inet6_getname+0x15d/0x650 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:533
but task is already holding lock:
ffff88807a07aa20 (k-sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1709 [inline]
ffff88807a07aa20 (k-sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: tcp_sock_set_cork+0x2c/0x2e0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3694
lock_sock_nested+0x48/0x100 net/core/sock.c:3780
lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1709 [inline]
inet6_getname+0x15d/0x650 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:533
rds_tcp_get_peer_sport net/rds/tcp_listen.c:70 [inline]
rds_tcp_conn_slots_available+0x288/0x470 net/rds/tcp_listen.c:149
rds_recv_hs_exthdrs+0x60f/0x7c0 net/rds/recv.c:265
rds_recv_incoming+0x9f6/0x12d0 net/rds/recv.c:389
rds_tcp_data_recv+0x7f1/0xa40 net/rds/tcp_recv.c:243
__tcp_read_sock+0x196/0x970 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1702
rds_tcp_read_sock net/rds/tcp_recv.c:277 [inline]
rds_tcp_data_ready+0x369/0x950 net/rds/tcp_recv.c:331
tcp_rcv_established+0x19e9/0x2670 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6675
tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x8eb/0x1ba0 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1609
sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1185 [inline]
__release_sock+0x1b8/0x3a0 net/core/sock.c:3213
Reading from the socket struct directly is safe from possible paths. For
rds_tcp_accept_one(), the socket has just been accepted and is not yet
exposed to concurrent access. For rds_tcp_conn_slots_available(), direct
access avoids the recursive deadlock seen during backlog processing
where the socket lock is already held from the __release_sock().
However, rds_tcp_conn_slots_available() is also called from the normal
softirq path via tcp_data_ready() where the lock is not held. This is
also safe because inet_dport is a stable 16 bits field. A READ_ONCE()
annotation as the value might be accessed lockless in a concurrent
access context.
Note that it is also safe to call rds_tcp_conn_slots_available() from
rds_conn_shutdown() because the fan-out is disabled.
Fixes: 9d27a0fb122f ("net/rds: Trigger rds_send_ping() more than once")
Reported-by: syzbot+5efae91f60932839f0a5 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5efae91f60932839f0a5
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera at suse.de>
---
v2: clarified commit message and add a comment around
rds_conn_shutdown() path
v3: used READ_ONCE() for lockless read and adjusted commit message
---
net/rds/connection.c | 3 +++
net/rds/tcp_listen.c | 28 +++++-----------------------
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index 185f73b01694..a542f94c0214 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -455,6 +455,9 @@ void rds_conn_shutdown(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
rcu_read_unlock();
}
+ /* we do not hold the socket lock here but it is safe because
+ * fan-out is disabled when calling conn_slots_available()
+ */
if (conn->c_trans->conn_slots_available)
conn->c_trans->conn_slots_available(conn, false);
}
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
index 6fb5c928b8fd..dce7ac9d3197 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
@@ -59,30 +59,12 @@ void rds_tcp_keepalive(struct socket *sock)
static int
rds_tcp_get_peer_sport(struct socket *sock)
{
- union {
- struct sockaddr_storage storage;
- struct sockaddr addr;
- struct sockaddr_in sin;
- struct sockaddr_in6 sin6;
- } saddr;
- int sport;
-
- if (kernel_getpeername(sock, &saddr.addr) >= 0) {
- switch (saddr.addr.sa_family) {
- case AF_INET:
- sport = ntohs(saddr.sin.sin_port);
- break;
- case AF_INET6:
- sport = ntohs(saddr.sin6.sin6_port);
- break;
- default:
- sport = -1;
- }
- } else {
- sport = -1;
- }
+ struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
+
+ if (!sk)
+ return -1;
- return sport;
+ return ntohs(READ_ONCE(inet_sk(sk)->inet_dport));
}
/* rds_tcp_accept_one_path(): if accepting on cp_index > 0, make sure the
--
2.53.0
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